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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chascat, post: 2971311, member: 76792&quot;]The Chinese have excellent die making abilities...thousands of 1950-D nickels were counterfeited and imported decades ago.&nbsp; They die makers used a genuine nickel for the master hub and made new dies from it.&nbsp; The fakes were then struck in mass volume and imported to the U S.&nbsp; They were so well made that they were indistinguishable from the genuine coins.&nbsp; The only difference was a softer strike with fewer steps than originals.&nbsp; These coins are now graded and in thousands of collections without being detected.&nbsp; If the Chinese used this process on softer metals, it could explain the softness of strike in the subject coin.&nbsp; Also, the new dies would probably require some retooling and polishing which may explain the oddness in detail of the subject coin.&nbsp; I don&#039;t doubt that this process has been used on many reproductions and have gone undetected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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